California Cuts Water Delivery in Drought

Officials to Halt Distribution to Parched Farms, Cities

SAN FRANCISCO—California officials have taken the unprecedented step of announcing plans to completely halt distribution of state water supplies to parched farms and cities this year amid worsening drought conditions.

The action by the state's Department of Water Resources Friday means that, barring a return to wet weather before final allocations are set on May 1, no supplies from the network of reservoirs and aqueducts that form the...